Even Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, nodded to the broad extent of the outage, tweeting that it 'does feel like a snow day.' Others reported that the badges they use to enter Facebook buildings had stopped working. A number of employees told BuzzFeed News that they could not receive emails from outside addresses.

One user tweeted: “Welcome to another episode of ‘is messenger down or is it just my internet acting up’.' Another wrote: “Here we go again.” A third tweeted, with the crying emoji: “Not messenger acting while im literally in a middle of an argument.Inside Facebook, the outage wreaked havoc across several crucial internal systems. Others took to Twitter to report the outages.

Meanwhile, for Instagram, 76% of reported problems are about the app, 12% are about the feed and 12% are about logging in. The site reports that 74% of the Messenger issues are affecting the sending of messages, 19% are struggling to use the app and seven percent are unable to use the website. Read more: 'Teething problems' sees Exeter electric car charging points removed London, Birmingham and Manchester are having the most problems with Instagram. DownDetector, the website which monitors outages on popular sites, recorded a spike at 4pm as people registered problems with both Messenger and Instagram.Īccording to DownDetector, Bristol and London are the areas having the most problems with Messenger. Reports began to surface at around 4pm today.

Photo and video sharing social networking service Instagram is also affected. Facebook Messenger has unexpectedly crashed, preventing numerous users across the UK from sending and receiving instant text messages as well as photos and videos.

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